At-Home COVID-19 Testing

At-Home COVID-19 Testing: A Rapid Scoping Review

Project Status:Complete

Knowledge User(s)

Health Canada

Funding Source(s)

  • Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) through the Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research (SPOR) Evidence Alliance
  • Health Canada

Project Objectives

To examine how at-home testing for COVID-19 been implemented internationally, including details on their performance, their impact and how at-home testing fits within the broader test-trace-isolate plan for the jurisdiction.

Research Approach

Rapid Scoping Review

Project Lead(s)

Meaghan Sim

Position: Nova Scotia Health Authority, Dalhousie University
Email: meaghan.sim@dal.ca

Meaghan Sim

Nova Scotia Health Authority, Dalhousie University

Janet Curran

Position: Dalhousie University, Maritimes SPOR SUPPORT Unit
Email: jacurran@dal.ca

Janet Curran is a Professor in the School of Nursing at Dalhousie University and a Research Chair in Quality and Patient Safety at IWK Health, Nova Scotia Health and Dalhousie University.

She is the Scientific Lead in the Strengthening Transitions in Care lab at IWK Health where her program of research is focused on co-designing and evaluating best practice and policy change interventions to improve transitions in care for patients and families. Her co-design work is informed by collaborating with multiple stakeholders including patients, parents and caregivers, healthcare providers, and policy makers.

Janet Curran

Dalhousie University, Maritimes SPOR SUPPORT Unit

Janet Curran is a Professor in the School of Nursing...

Andrea Tricco

Position: St. Michael's Hospital, Unity Health Toronto
Email: Andrea.Tricco@unityhealth.to

Andrea C Tricco, PhD, MSc

@ATricco

@andreatricco.bsky.social

Dr. Andrea Tricco holds a MSc in Epidemiology and PhD in Population Health. She is a Scientist and the Executive Director of the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael’s Hospital, Unity Health Toronto. She is a Professor at the University of Toronto in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health & Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation. She is also an Adjunct and Associate Graduate Faculty with Faculty of Health Sciences at Ontario Tech University. She is Co-Editor in Chief of the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology.

Dr. Tricco’s research interests are related to responding to decision-makers (including policy-makers, healthcare providers, and patient partners) through knowledge synthesis. Her research focuses on advancing the science of knowledge synthesis and she is leading research projects related to rapid reviews, network meta-analysis, and scoping reviews. She currently holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Knowledge Synthesis for Knowledge Users and has been recognized as one of the most highly cited researchers in the world.

Andrea Tricco

St. Michael's Hospital, Unity Health Toronto

Andrea C Tricco, PhD, MSc @ATricco @andreatricco.bsky.social Dr. Andrea Tricco...